do you have a gong in your house?

[Anonymous]

A bong?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Growing up, my family put the gong on the porch. And my mom would hit it to announce it was time for us to come home for dinner. Everybody in the neighborhood knew this. So if we were out of earshot, if another kid in the neighborhood heard it they would tell me hey you got to go home. I had forgotten about that until this thread. I have not thought about that for years. I am in my mid-50s.

My mother did this as well but with a metal bell. We have 7 kids in the family (kids, the youngest is now 56). My parents also put a doorbell in the kitchen so they wouldn't have to yell upstairs to talk to us. We each had our own signal, mine was a short and a long. One extra long ring meant everyone had to come down. It was great, my parents hardly went upstairs.

[Anonymous]

Yes, but only because a family member used to work for a gong company and gave us a small one. Company sold super-high quality ones used by musicians.

Rarely used unless small children come to visit, but a conversation piece.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If so, how often/when do you strike it?

No, we aren't monks!

[Anonymous]

We had a gong in my old office. We would use it when we finished a big project or solved a tough issue.

[Anonymous]

No gong, yes dinner bell!

[Anonymous]

Intrigued by post.

Are gongs having their moment? (Instagram, houzz)?

[Anonymous]

OP here. Not sure if gongs are a thing, but I saw one at an online auction and it piqued my interest. We aren't in a big house, but I do have a dinner bell, which I use to let the kids know we are ready to eat, and I thought a gong might be fun. Not as an everyday thing, but for special occasions. Long story short, I went ahead about bought the gong. Everybody's entitled to one weird pandemic purchase, right? Maybe they will be a thing now. :p

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Not sure if gongs are a thing, but I saw one at an online auction and it piqued my interest. We aren't in a big house, but I do have a dinner bell, which I use to let the kids know we are ready to eat, and I thought a gong might be fun. Not as an everyday thing, but for special occasions. Long story short, I went ahead about bought the gong. Everybody's entitled to one weird pandemic purchase, right? Maybe they will be a thing now. :p

Love it! Lets make it a thing

[Anonymous]

Is anyone else old enough to remember the Gong Show?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is anyone else old enough to remember the Gong Show?

Yes, was very strange, the 70's...

[Anonymous]

I don't, but my Uncle Van Smoot has a really old awesome one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:More than one....

Who's your decorator? Benihana?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Not sure if gongs are a thing, but I saw one at an online auction and it piqued my interest. We aren't in a big house, but I do have a dinner bell, which I use to let the kids know we are ready to eat, and I thought a gong might be fun. Not as an everyday thing, but for special occasions. Long story short, I went ahead about bought the gong. Everybody's entitled to one weird pandemic purchase, right? Maybe they will be a thing now. :p

Thank you for this thread! I have never considered a gong before, but this thread... now I must have one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, we bang a gong as a signal to get it on. (We are both dirty and sweet.)

It was either that or white rocks.

Finally someone takes this post where it should go.